The month of February 2025 has marked a negative record for the expansion of polar ice. To say it is The European Agency Copernicus are Monthly bulletin dedicated to the climate crisis. A document that also reports how the person who closed for a few days has been More always the third month of February.
The surface of the polar ice cream
Last February the size of the Antarctic Calotta reached a lower value of the8% Compared to the average. It must be said that this is not a minimum record with regard to the cases ArcticBecause this season it is that the artist ice cream reaches its maximum dimensions. However, if it usually came in February 100If he wants to simplify this year, he stopped one 92.
In AntarcticaOn the other hand, the surface is covered with the ice lower than 26% Compared to the one who is registered on average in February. Month that represents what Augustus is in the northern hemisphere in the southern hemisphere. Looking at the general figure, here is the trend of the last fifty years:
The graph shows the trend of the Global Sea Ice size, an index that measures the expansion of ice in the polar areas. A value that achieved the negative record in February 16.18 million from square meters. In the February 1979The oldest available value for the second month of the year, had one 19.56 million from square meters. It is a reduction of 17.3%.
The temperature trend
With a global monthly average temperature equal to 13.36 ° CThe month of February was the most popular third since the temperatures were registered. Not just that: he conquered 1.59 ° C The average temperature of the pre-industrial period (1850-1900), when the Paris agreements committed the signing countries to strive not to exceed this threshold with 1.5 ° C.
The global average temperature of the Boreal Winter, or of the period between December 2024 and February 2025, was the second highest ever registered. And has been conquered 0.71 ° C The average of the period 1991-2020.
The situation in Italy
With the help of Copernicus data you can Temperature situation in Italy. This map shows the variation compared to the average of the period 1990-2020 of the average monthly temperature that was registered two meters off the ground. The red values indicate a more significant increase in temperature.
The most serious situation in terms of variation is increasing compared to the reference average, with peaks of even 4 degrees Celsiuswere included in the Alps Graiebetween the Valle d’Aosta and the province of Torinoand in Valtellinaor in the province of Sondrio ((Lombardy).
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